Museums Quotes - Page 6

• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  Helen Keller

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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• I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries, museums and government buildings. That's why I love working in the public sector.

  Philip Freelon

  Government, People, Everyday

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  Jack Levine

  Art, Directors, Movement

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• When you're working on a film, it's almost like photographing paintings at a museum. You're photographing somebody else's world. I just try and interpret it and make it real, and make it what the actors are about, what the director is about, and what the film is about.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Real, Trying, Directors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

  Robert Smithson

  Memories, Past, Reality

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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• We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

  Richard Meier

  Character, Personality, Ends

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

  Susan Griffin

  Meditation, Painting, Sand

  Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.246, Open Road Media

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• And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Mean, Visitors

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• I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Thinking, England

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Jul 11, 2013

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• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Swimming

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• Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Real, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Work, Appreciate, Looks

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• I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.

  Hiro Murai

  Emotional, Together, Groups

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

  Peter Zumthor

  Bigs, Drag

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• Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Drawing, Noise

  "The Long Slide. Museums as playgrounds." by Jerry Saltz, nymag.com. December 04, 2011.

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• Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

  Hans Haacke

  Wall, Jacuzzi, Working It

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• We are all museums of fear.

  Charles Bukowski

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• The earth is a museum of divine intent.

  Bill McKibben

  Earth, Divine

  Bill McKibben (2005). “The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation”, p.13, Cowley Publications

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• Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

  Amy Plum

  Mom, Real, Book

  Amy Plum (2011). “Die for Me”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• A theater without beer is just a museum

  Bertolt Brecht

  Beer, Theater

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• I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

  Eva Zeisel

  Thinking, Hands, Design

  "Prolific" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2006.

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• Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

  Iggy Azalea

  Art, Music Is

  "Rough edges are part of Iggy Azalea's charm". Interview with Allison Stewart, articles.chicagotribune.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

  Richard Meier

  Art, Different, Architecture

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

  Theaster Gates

  Thinking, Stuff, Wells

  Source: chicagoist.com

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